Copy 1, Volume 1

View of the Russian Empire during the reign of Catharine the Second, and to the close of the present century / By William Tooke.

  • William Tooke
Date:
1799
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: View of the Russian Empire during the reign of Catharine the Second, and to the close of the present century / By William Tooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fecurity and fubfiftence. The fame gerierous patronage and care was continued to them on their return: they fat down in eafe and affluence to commit the refult of their i Inquiries to paper ; and the fub{tance of what they relate will be found in the following pages. This is all that feems ’ neceflary for me to fay ; and I humbly conclude ‘in. the words of the hiftorian: “ Si in tanta “¢ {criptorum turba mea fama in obfcuro {itis nobilitate & ‘Magnitudine eorum, qui nomini “6 officient meo, me confoler.”? Lonpon, June 20, 1 799+
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